It was a Happy Thanksgiving this year…two of the Cochins started laying eggs the day before, at 22 weeks and 2 days old.  The partridge bantam cochin, Harlequin, and Penguin, the Black Bantam Cochin, both laid their first eggs that day and have been laying steady ever since.  As of today, we are up to 29 eggs.  The eggs were 1.0 oz and 1.1 oz.  In the 2 1/2 weeks they have been laying, the eggs have increased to 1.3 oz, and now Lady Cluck, the other Black cochin, started laying three days ago.  Neither of the Buff cochins are laying yet, but their combs just started turning vibrant red so it should be any day now.  They are gentle, quiet (except when they lay,) outgoing and friendly, and don’t mind staying in the coop and run when I don’t have time to be out in the yard with them.  I am officially in love with the bantam Cochin breed, and now with eggs, they seem like the perfect city chickens.